questions about brandon

[guessingo]

I put some questions inside other threads about him, so I am making this thread so it is easier for people to find.

There are probably for peter...

how many hours/week does brandon spend writing? It sounds like he lives and breathes writing.

also, was the Timewasters site created by people in Utah?

[Creative_Vortx]

Ooo Ooo Ima be useful! This exact question was just answered in another thread just a lil while ago.

Brandon has been working like a dog for long hours. He spends up to 14 hours per day writing, but he wants to get to where he's spending more like 9 hours a day.

[ryos]

Also, yes, TWG was created by recently-graduated BYU students. I think Fell (Dan Wells) owns the site.

[Mellington the loony Gold Misting]

That said, by no means is the following limited to BYU folk - otherwise I'd have been chased off years ago.

[Creative_Vortx]

Maybe they are working on a scheme to get rid of us non-Utahians.

  YOU CAN'T REMOVE US ALL!

Heh.

 

[guessingo]

I noticed a post from Peter that Towers of Midnight will not be out until March 2011. Is this because of Brandon's other novels? Or is towers of midnight harder to write than he thought? The website said it is 82% done.

[Mellington the loony Gold Misting]

If they try, I'll just have to send my hubby to Utah to gain a foothold.  I'm kind of tethered here in the frozen north.

guessingo:  I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned that Brandon anticipates his progress meters for the WoT novels (since they're pretty long novels) may get to 150% or so before he considers the writing "done" - then, because they're WoT novels (and not technically his universe but one he's permitted to use), they probably require a longer process prior to publication.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

guessingo, Brandon mentioned this on Twitter & Facebook this week, and he'll do a bigger blog post on it later.

[Wolfstar]

From what I gathered, this one is requiring much more thought on pacing and even content than TGS did, just by the nature of what plot lines are left to cover before Tarmon Gai'don.  Mr. Sanderson doesn't want it to feel like, I believe his words were, "Everything that didn't fit into TGS." or something along those lines.  I'm sure when it's not your world you're writing in, when you're trying really hard to make things fit into the allotted number of books, when the series is so dang big as it is, and when he is taking the criticisms of TGS into account on this novel, that it's serving to require more time.

That said, if ToM is as cool as TGS was, I don't care if it takes him 2 years.  Besides, we've waited longer than that for some of the Robert Jordan installments in the series, right?

[guessingo]

when did brandon become a full time writer. from what i have read it takes authors several published books before they can quit their job and write full time.

[Miyabi]

Way back when on the forums you'll see that Brandon was writing full time even when he did have a job.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

He quit his day (night) job when he got his first book contract.

[Patriotic Kaz]

Doesn't he still teach at BYU?

[Red, White, and Joker]

Yes, he does. But it's one class that he teaches one night a week, one semester a year.

It's a scifi/fantasy writing class, and it's very educational.

[JCHancey]

Yes, he does. But it's one class that he teaches one night a week, one semester a year.

It's a scifi/fantasy writing class, and it's very educational.

The only reason I want to go to YBU/BYU... apart from, ya know, actually getting a masters or continuing my education...